1 Home invasion: Dereck Taylor Holt, 22, has been arrested and charged with attacking three elderly Mennonite women in Pennsylvania because of their faith, police said Sunday. Authorities say Holt posed as an insurance salesman to gain entrance to the victims' home in Clay Township on Friday. He allegedly tied up the women, who are sisters, and assaulted them with a stun gun while raging against their religion. The victims are between 84 and 90 years old. Police Chief David Steffen said he's pursuing the attack as a hate crime.

2Mall shooting: A suspect who fired about 50 shots in the parking lot of a crowded shopping mall in Newport Beach (Orange County), sending shoppers sprinting for safety, was cooperative when officers took him into custody, authorities said Sunday. Marcos Gurrola, 42, fired into the air and onto the ground Saturday, witnesses said. He was charged with shooting at an inhabited dwelling. One person suffered a minor injury while running away.

3 Officer shot: The health of an Alabama police officer who was shot after a triple killing and a two-county chase was improving Sunday, authorities said. The Heflin Police Department said Jackie Stovall was in stable condition. The man believed responsible for slaying three unidentified people Saturday fired at officers during a pursuit, injuring Stovall. The suspect was killed by a police SWAT team.

4 Fossils found: Researchers from California's San Bernardino County Museum say a pair of fossils unearthed in the hills north of Las Vegas are the front leg bones of a saber-toothed cat. The fossils from the extinct predator are thought to be about 15,590 years old.

5 Speech taped: Ron Weiser, the finance chair for the Republican National Committee, told a Michigan Tea Party gathering this summer that Detroit's plummeting population and lack of a mayoral machine to get voters "to stop playing pool and drinking beer in the pool hall" had decreased its influence in elections. Weiser's comments were secretly videotaped Aug. 9 in Milford by a Democrat shadowing a Republican candidate. The comments drew a sharp response from state Democratic Chairman Mark Brewer. "We have a major Republican figure in Michigan and nationally who is making racist stereotype remarks about voters in Detroit," Brewer said.

6 Nuclear shutdown: Energy company PPL Corp. was trying to determine why a central Pennsylvania nuclear power plant reactor shut down unexpectedly Sunday. PPL said the reactor at the Susquehanna plant near Berwick was safe and stable. The shutdown occurred during testing of turbine system valve.

7 Couple arrested: A husband and wife from Warwick, R.I., both face charges of driving under the influence after they were stopped separately on the same night, police said. Stephanie Souza, 43, was pulled over Friday, police said. Then her husband, Michael Souza, 44, was pulled over while driving to get his wife.